After a slow start on the web (Google’s Picassa has always been the best desktop photo organiser) Web Albums development is picking up with geo support being added to the application and the API.

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Yahoo! is shutting down its Yahoo! Photos service and providing tools to move customers to either Flickr or to competing photo-sharing sites. Seems odd to have kept it going so long, but that lack of integration has long been a characteristic of Yahoo! Perhaps with Yang at the helm things are changing?

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The Yahoo! Open Hack Day takes place this weekend in Alexandra Palace. Read about it here.

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Mika Brzezinski of MSNBC refusing to read the Paris Hilton story – I’m sure you’ve seen it. There have been thousands of comments of support, so there’s some here…

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Google has acquired beta phone service GrandCentral. The service allows users (currently only in the US) to have one number which can be used on all their phones –  and a host of other services.

The New York Times has a fairly long piece about Sue Decker, the Yahoo! executive who has just been made president following the departure of Terry Semel.

Yahoo! has applied for a patent for its new SmartAds that deliver display ads to people across the web based on their demographics or behaviours. SearchEngineLand reports that the idea is to take templates containing advertiser-generated  content (logos, copy, graphics) and assemble them dynamically depending on who’s seeing the ads.

Following its acquisition by Google, FeedBurner has announced that previously paid-for services will now be free. The first off the blocks are FeedBurner Pro (using your own domain for feeds instead of their’s) and TotalStats (detailed and granular feed stats).

AOP reports on Informa research indicating that UK mobile content was worth £661m in 2006, half coming from 25-34 year olds.

So says Carat in its latest advertising forecast which is predicting growth of 4.1% growth for 2007 and 3.9% next year. Almost all of which will be driven by the growth of online, reports the AOP story.